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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on April 16, 2010, 00:37
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An article published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences goes a long way toward improving understanding of the bacterium that causes syphilis and may lead to novel therapeutic approaches for the disease.
http://www.physorg.com/news190572971.html
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Nice! :ack:
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:laugh:
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I wonder if Facebook sponsored the article? :o:
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lol. I thought that would be chlamydia.
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Apparently Facebook has caused a surge in the number of cases of syphilis, quite odd when you think about it.
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Yes, you can catch syphilis from Facebook. LINK (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7508945/Facebook-linked-to-rise-in-syphilis.html) Nasty little blighters aren't they? :ack:
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You should get proper anti-virus before going on Facebook, then. :)
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Even safer - avoid Facebook at all costs. ;D
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Indeed!
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Apparently Facebook has caused a surge in the number of cases of syphilis, quite odd when you think about it.
more promiscuous activities.
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Undoubtedly, Sam, but why would that then lead to a surge in just one STI? For that matter, when I was young, the two we worried about were syphilis and gonorrhoea, yet chlamydia existed at that time - no-one seemed to catch it, though. STIs are an interesting area of social change.
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chlamydia is given a lot more press these days and its easily detectable - people have tests for these quite often. At UoB at the start of each year the NHS gave out test packs for this.
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Back in the dark days you went to a grim building ominously labelled "Special Clinic", trying hard not to be seen as you entered. :)
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wow!
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Back in the dark days you went to a grim building ominously labelled "Special Clinic", trying hard not to be seen as you entered. :)
... or came out. So to speak. ;D
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They weren't pleasant places. (I have to add, in all honesty, I only knew about them because there was one at the hospital where I ran the radio station...).
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love the comment there... yeah, ok, whatever :)x
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It's true. Ask any special clinic in NW London. ;D
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but what about the NE ? :laugh:
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They weren't pleasant places. (I have to add, in all honesty, I only knew about them because there was one at the hospital where I ran the radio station...).
He used Suicide is Painless as his theme tune. :laugh:
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Naah, that was my shut down - after 2 or 3 hours of me, it helped people cope better. ;D
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:o
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I hadn't even heard of chlamydia in the 60's. :dunno:
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That was my point, Clive. Although it did exist, no-one ever seemed to catch it then.
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Perhaps they didn't know they had it?
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Perhaps they didn't know they had it?
that's probably the case - we could all have it and have no symptoms.
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:horror:
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We must have all caught it in the 60's. Hasn't done us any har
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These are very 'non-specific’ symptoms and can be caused by other infections and diseases. If you go to a GP or family planning doctor with these symptoms, make sure you have a chlamydia test. You are entitled to ask for the test if you aren't offered it.
In men, chlamydia is the most common cause of discharge from the penis. Sometimes chlamydia can cause mild irritation at the tip of the penis (urethra) that disappears after two or three days.
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/chlamydia.htm
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We must have all caught it in the 60's. Hasn't done us any har
lol and I guess everyone just got pregnant so fertility wasn't an issue!
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Ah! One of the symptoms of Chlamydia is that the fallopian tubes get clogged up making conception difficult or impossible! THAT'S how we did it! ;D
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:laugh: :laugh:
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:pmsl:
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Back in the dark days you went to a grim building ominously labelled "Special Clinic", trying hard not to be seen as you entered. :)
I once went to one with a friend to give her moral support. She was very embarrassed and nervously walked in while I went in quite nonchalantly. She asked me how I could be so calm, I said it was probably because it wasnt me that was being treated ;D
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its strange how people thought of those places - today its like... well you have some lets treat it no bother.
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We must have all caught it in the 60's. Hasn't done us any har
Though I believe it can affect the ability to hit the M key. :devil:
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:baad:
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its strange how people thought of those places - today its like... well you have some lets treat it no bother.
You'd probably be amazed at how much society has changed in 40-50 years, Sam. As youngsters, Clive and I were living in the tail end of Victorian society, despite the fact she'd been dead 60 years.
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true. all for the best... well mostly I'd say.
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Mostly, I'd agree. My grandfather died of pneumonia in 1951. He was in a huge oxygen tent (they hadn't invented masks then) and there was little other treatment they could give. Last year, it was a simple course of a couple of tablets and a lightweight mask for me.
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just one of the thousands of medical advances.
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Indeed. With 50s medicine, I'd be dead by now, not just because of the pneumonia.
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yep.
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It's quite sobering...
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But also encouraging that being seriously ill doesn't automatically mean death these days. :)
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Oh, indeed. :)
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Thankfully. ;)
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I wonder if Clive has the same sort of memories of the era as I do? We have to consider that medicine may not have reached Wales till much later. :devil:
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You'd probably be amazed at how much society has changed in 40-50 years, Sam. As youngsters, Clive and I were living in the tail end of Victorian society, despite the fact she'd been dead 60 years.
Yes, I agree with that view Rik. By and large I think it's changed for the better.
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Medicine is for wimps! ;D
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Dr John Collis Brown's Chlorodyne, Dentifrice... Really strange things to have stuck around as long as they did.
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Perahaps because they contained illegal drugs? ;D
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Perahaps because they contained illegal drugs? ;D
what like Coca-Cola?
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Morphine.
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It was only taken off the market when drug addiction became an issue, and people were buying up large stocks to extract the morphine from.
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yikes!!
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I told you we grew up in a different world. ;)
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yep - I'm happy about that too.
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;D
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On the other hand we didn't have Twitter, Facebook or Mcdonalds so it wasn't all bad. ;D
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Nor as many murderers, rapists, paedophiles and illegal immigrants either Clive. We also had more freedoms to do what we wanted, where and when we wanted, without the nanny state banning, fining or taxing us. :(
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I'm sure there were just as many sex offenders around. You just didn't hear about them in the press every day.
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I'm sure there were just as many sex offenders around. You just didn't hear about them in the press every day.
exactly, the press really makes you feel as if everything is right next to you and always about to happen to you if you aren't vigilant.
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On the other hand we didn't have Twitter, Facebook or Mcdonalds so it wasn't all bad. ;D
well I bet the average mcdonalds has more nutrition in it than what the masses were getting "back in the day"
Facebook and Twitter - just because ya don't see the point doesn't mean its bad. I see them as kinda pointless in the grand scheme of things but why not have a bit of fun. Facebook is great for keeping in touch with friends, especially when you live on the other side of the planet.
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I'm sure there were just as many sex offenders around. You just didn't hear about them in the press every day.
We had TV, radio and newspapers even back in the 60s and 70s Simon :o:
Murders were front page news for days on end as we didnt get that many when we had capital punishment. I dnont remember hearing about paedophiles in the 60s and 70s so maybe they abducted and killed all the children back then as we just had people like Myra Hindley and Ian Brady on trial for murder.
The increase in paedophiles must be as a result of easier and shorter prison sentences since the 70s, much as is the case for murderers.
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If there has been an increase in paedophiles, some of it may be to do with the internet, but I still think a lot went on during the 60s and 70s which was brushed under the carpet, because families didn't want the 'shame' of admitting there had been problems, especially if, as in a lot of cases of abuse, it happened within the family.
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That's true, the victims tended to remain silent, and often still do.
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just look at the Catholic Church...
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We had TV, radio and newspapers even back in the 60s and 70s Simon :o:
you also didn't have lots of 24 hour news channels that have to keep you informed of every little detail
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Which was a great relief. ;D
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just look at the Catholic Church...
And certain Austrians...
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A strange nation! :o
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Anyone who wears lederhosen is strange. ;)
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And they still do! I last visited in 2003 and those silly lederhosen were quite commonplace.
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Eery, isn't it.
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Unnerving! :laugh:
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Swerving uncharacteristically close to going back on topic:
As one of the less enjoyable rewards of playing in bands in the 70's, I one day found myself back in the local clap clinic yet again (I can still remember my Patient Number, even now), after the pills they'd given during my previous visit caused an intense rash which covered only the lower half of my body from the waist down.
It didn't take very long at all for the novelty of having a two-tone birthday suit to wear off - particularly once the itching began. However, the clinic's interest seemed to lie, not with my discomfort, but in the fact that an allergic reaction to those particular pills was hitherto quite unheard of. Consequently, I was asked to hang around while a photographer travelled the 30-odd miles from Southampton hospital to take pictures of me doing a twirl with my kit off. Then, once that was done, asked if I wouldn't mind signing a disclaimer allowing the shots to be used for a feature in the Lancet.
Well, I've often thought I'd make a good centrefold. After all, if Burt Reynolds can do it... Any road up, somewhere out there is a medical journal with a picture of me doing a brilliant impression of a Strawberry Sundae and if you should still happen to have a copy in that box of questionable magazines you keep under the bed, I'll give you twice what you paid for it.
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How much for the negatives Rod :)x
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An excellent story Rod. There but for the grace of God go most of us! :D
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;D
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:laugh:
You realise, Rod, that you now feature on the Lancet's equivalent of a blooper reel? ;)
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How much for the negatives Rod :)x
How much can you afford, Sandra? ;)
An excellent story Rod. There but for the grace of God go most of us! :D
Indeed, Clive. Mind you I've not had Scrapie.
You realise, Rod, that you now feature on the Lancet's equivalent of a blooper reel? ;)
Hmmm... I'm hoping it was cremated with Jeremy Beadle.
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:laugh: